Crossword-Solution: GOUM 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Colonel Claparede, on my right, with whom this meeting was my first, was asking me if I had ever been fool enough to fall in love; Colonel Baville, of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, on my left, whose face was also a new one to me, was inquiring whether I did not agree with him that children were born with extraordinary rapidity in the African climate, while Bourbaki, the secretary of the Arab office, was performing the wildest fantasia in front of us at the head of the Hadjout Goum.

Out in the open, Victoria in her bassour, he on the horse which he would take from his father's goum, travelling would be pure joy.

His half-sister's son, Sidi Tahar Ben Hadj, had under him some of the best men of the Agha's _goum_, and there were a pair of giant, ink-black eunuchs to guard the guest and her two negresses.

Ben Râana would reluctantly consent to her going: he would give her an escort--not Tahar, because Tahar must stay for his marriage--but some trustworthy men of his _goum_, and good camels.

Turning to the dead "Goum" who had shot his friend, he swore horribly, and deplored that the man was dead and beyond the reach of his further vengeance.